James Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169776
- eISBN:
- 9780231850629
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169776.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter studies James Cameron's Aliens (1986). Aliens pits a squad of human Marines against a hive of aliens located in a space colony. The film functions powerfully as a fairy tale about ...
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This chapter studies James Cameron's Aliens (1986). Aliens pits a squad of human Marines against a hive of aliens located in a space colony. The film functions powerfully as a fairy tale about children and the protective role of the ‘mother’ as a primal figure. With Aliens, Cameron offers the clearest example of his career in terms of how the fairy tale and the horror genre can be interconnected. The film elaborates Cameron's commitment to rendering mythic tropes in such a way that they resonate with the creeping awareness that peoples' bodies can become sites for technological fusion and transformation. It also indicates Cameron's vital role in the evolution of a ‘new wave’ in American fantasy and science fiction filmmaking within the major studio production context.Less
This chapter studies James Cameron's Aliens (1986). Aliens pits a squad of human Marines against a hive of aliens located in a space colony. The film functions powerfully as a fairy tale about children and the protective role of the ‘mother’ as a primal figure. With Aliens, Cameron offers the clearest example of his career in terms of how the fairy tale and the horror genre can be interconnected. The film elaborates Cameron's commitment to rendering mythic tropes in such a way that they resonate with the creeping awareness that peoples' bodies can become sites for technological fusion and transformation. It also indicates Cameron's vital role in the evolution of a ‘new wave’ in American fantasy and science fiction filmmaking within the major studio production context.
K. Zauditu-Selassie
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033280
- eISBN:
- 9780813039060
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033280.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. This book delves into African spiritual traditions, explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as ...
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Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. This book delves into African spiritual traditions, explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved, and Jazz. While others have studied the African spiritual ideas and values encoded in Morrison's work, the author of this study explores a wide range of complex concepts, including African deities, ancestral ideas, spiritual archetypes, mythic trope, and lyrical prose representing African spiritual continuities. She writes this book, not only as a literary critic but also as a practicing Obatala priest in the Yoruba spiritual tradition and a Mama Nganga in the Kongo spiritual system. She analyzes tensions between communal and individual values and moral codes as represented in Morrison's novels. She also uses interviews with and non-fiction written by Morrison to further build her critical paradigm.Less
Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. This book delves into African spiritual traditions, explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved, and Jazz. While others have studied the African spiritual ideas and values encoded in Morrison's work, the author of this study explores a wide range of complex concepts, including African deities, ancestral ideas, spiritual archetypes, mythic trope, and lyrical prose representing African spiritual continuities. She writes this book, not only as a literary critic but also as a practicing Obatala priest in the Yoruba spiritual tradition and a Mama Nganga in the Kongo spiritual system. She analyzes tensions between communal and individual values and moral codes as represented in Morrison's novels. She also uses interviews with and non-fiction written by Morrison to further build her critical paradigm.
